i know that i'm imagining an impossibility - trump without pence means trump without the evangelical base, which he requires to win. without pence, or without the things pence represents, there could be no trump - even if he snickers at them behind their backs.

this judge is a good example; it was hardly trump's pick, but a pick pushed down on him by the evangelical right, as represented by pence.

so, a trump-harris ticket - while rational to me - would lose in a landslide. who is going to vote for that?

still, that's kind of the point. what would trump be like if you severed him from these crazy christian nutcases? and i suspect the answer is a lot more tolerable.

it's an entirely plausible outcome.